Toilet article.



J. BOIVIN.

TOILET ARTICLE. AL'JPLIOATION FILED FEB. 2, 1912 7 M O m u T .m m D A M G m t 4 P n 3 MM 3 E ll l'll'l'i, 2,111 [I I COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH 60., WASHINGTON, D. c.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH BOIVIN, 0F IPATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO ROBERT GAEDE AND ONE-THIRD TO GEORGE W. RENKLE, BOTH OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

TOILET ARTICLE.

Specification of Letters .Patent.

Patented Jan. '7, 1913.

Application filed February 2, 1912. Serial No. 674,906.

' son, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toilet Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide in a combination toilet article, including a mirror or the like and a removable comb or similar implement, a suitable frame or structure holding the mirror and having a handle removably receiving the comb.

The invention consists in the improved combination article, as well as in certain structural features thereof, all substantially as herein set forth in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the article; Fig. 2 a rear elevation showing one of the combs partly withdrawn from the handle (the present embodiment of the invention having provision for two combs) Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the enlarged end of the article; and Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view through the handle.

The frame a of the article is preferably made of sheet material, such as sheet metal, celluloid, or the like and comprises a circular or other suitably shaped body portion 6 and handle portion 0 projecting radially from the body portion. The mirror cl may be held in the body portion by turning an edge e of the body portion over the edge of the mirror; to reinforce the body portion and thus protect the mirror a circumferential bead 7 will be formed on the body portion. The handle portion 0 includes a flat front wall 9 and a back wall 71 (see Fig. 4:) which is a continuation of a pressed-back part it of body portion 6, said walls being soldered together as shown in Fig. 4 so as to be spaced from each other from end to end between their side edges and form a socket or holder open at the free end of said handle portion so as to admit the comb d.

In shaping the frame it is preferable to press back that part of the body portion 5 which is alined with the wall it of the handle portion so that said part UL) will form an elongation of the wall it and thusproduce in the body part a recess forming an extension of the passage through the handle portion, the passage and recess forming a socket wherein a comb or combs of suitable length will be accommodated without the handle being unduly long. The article is shown as adapted to receive two combs of different sizes. To this end, a longitudinal intermediate part of the wall 72. 72/ is pressed up out of the plane of the remainder thereof, as at j, and along both sides of the portion 7' the wall 71 71, has cars is cut out of it and bent inwardly so as to afford an auxiliary socket. Figs. 1 and 2 show the combs'z' and m arranged in the respective sockets, the comb 2' in Fig. 2 being partly withdrawn. In order to keep each comb in place the material at the inner end of each socket is indented as at 0 so that at these points the material of the frame will bear frictionally upon the comb or combs. The part 7' which is pressed up out of the plane of the back wall it of the handle and the corresponding portion h of the body part of the frame, it will be observed, serves the double function of affording a recess, interiorly of the handle, for the reception of a comb or the like and a rib to reinforce the frame.

Having thus. fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is As an article of manufacture, a flat frame including a flat body part having a front face and a back face and means to secure a mirror or the like against its front face, and a flattened sheath-like handle projecting from the body .part and being open at its free end and having front and back walls, a portion of said body part being elevated relatively to the remainder thereof and the back wall of the handle being integral with and disposed in the same plane as said elevated portion and a longitudinal part of the back Wall of the'handle and a In testimony whereof I {Lfl'lX signature part of said elevated portion of the body in presence oftwo Witnesses.

part being pressed out of said plane relatively away from the front Wall of the han- JOSEPH BOIVIN' 5 dle and thus forming in said frame a rib re- Witnesses:

inforcing the frame and, interiorly of the JOHN W; STEWARD,

handle, a recess for a comb or the like. WM; D. BELL.

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